Garment-hook



(No Model.)

G.- R. GRIMES.

GARMENT HOOK.

No. 317,343. Patented May 5, 1.885.

INEINTOR:

BY v ATTORNEYS.

WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE R. GRIMES, OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

GARMENT-HOOK.

SPECL'PICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,343, dated May5,1885.

Application filed June 11, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE R. Gnnuns, of Terre Haute, in the county ofVigo and State of Indiana, have invented a new and ImprovedGarment-Hook, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved garment-hookadapted to hold a number of garments, and also to hold tags bearingthe-number of the arms and of the hooks on the arms.

The invention consists in a garment-hook formed of an arm, from whichaseries of hooks project downward, on the prong of each of which hooks acurved transverse piece is held, on which the garments are hung. Theinvention also consists in parts and details, as will be fully set forthhereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved garment-hook, parts being shownin section. Fig. 2 is a front view ofthe same.

Anarm, A, projects from a plate, B, which plate can be secured to apost, wall, &c., by means of screws, or in any other suitable manner. Aseries of hooks, 0, project downward from the arm A, and on theupwardly-projecting prong of each hook a transverse bar or hanger, D, issecured, which is curved downward and outward from the prong of thehook, and forms the support for a garment. The bars or hangers D aremade flat, and have flanges D on the fronts, which flanges are securedto the prongs of the hooks.

At the upper end of each hook O a short hook, E, projects from the sideof the arm A, which hooks E are adapted to hold tags or checks F, whichare provided with the number of the arm A, and with the number of thecorresponding hook O on the arm. For example, the first arm A of aseries is marked 1, and the hooks O on the same have the numbers 1, 2,and 3, &-c., the outer hook being 1.

(No model.)

The tags or checks F are marked 1 1, 1 2, l 3, &c., respectively, andfor each arm the nun1- ber of the arm is produced on the check or tag inaddition to the number of the hook. The checks F are handed to thepersons who give their garments in charge, and if a person hands in acheck on which, for example, are produced the numbers 6 and 2, theattendant knows that the garments hang on the second hook of the sixtharm. In the same manner garments can be hung in stores, &c.

I do not limit myself to any special number of hooks on the arm. Thehooks may be at right angles to the arm, or at an inclination to thesame, or may be held on a rod parallel with the wall. The curvedbarsDa-re to vary in length from three to twenty inches, so as to adaptthem to any position and to all kinds of garments. The arms may befastened to a wall, as shown, or made detachable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Let-. ters Patent, is

1. A garment-hook made substantially as herein shown and described, andconsisting of an arm from which a series of hooks project downward, tothe prong of each of which hooks a curved transverse bar is secured, asset forth.

2. A garment-hook consisting of the arm A, provided with downwardlyprojecting hooks C, on the prong of each of which a curved transversebar, D, is secured, some of the bars D being longer than the others,substantially as herein shown and described.

' 3. In a garment-hanger, the combination,

with the arm A, of the hooks O, projecting downward from the same, thecurved crossbars D on the ends of the prongs of the hooks O, and of thehooks E, projecting from the arm A at the upper ends of the hooks 0,substantiall y as herein shown and described.

GEORGE R. GRIMES. Witnesses:

FRANK H. COOPER, FRANK TUTTLE.

